Episode Summary

A marine is found murdered on the school campus, and the NCIS discovers a suspect immediately. However, they are back at zero point when they find the suspect murdered. Tim & Abby discover a trace in the e-mails, called "Red Cell," which leads them to believe that the marine must have been involved in a serious death game.moreless

One of the more fun episodes.

Tony and Kate are like children – they prowl the apartment and ransack is a good word. For all their teasing, obviously some girls like geeks. Kate calling Tony 'Dodo-head', that's mature.

Gibbs demonstrating the killing technique on Tony was hilarious… and kinda scary. Very cool when Gibbs goes all marine on the killer, I don't remember him ever getting that physical before."Do you think I keep him around for his personality?" This is one of the times that Tony actually shows why Gibbs hired him. Tony is always unorthodox but he is a good cop.I enjoy this episode, despite the somewhat overused theme of hazing, it's a fun episode.moreless

Fun but..

This episode had quite some fun. I loved Kate and Tony intruding McGee's home and having a look of his "outer work" side.. all those things telling us more about his char.

So.. that was great and the whole "I can do anything" to "I am not sure if I can do that" was also great on char level and I think that was probably the best part of this episode for me.I did not liked the case thought. There were great moments like when they were trying to catch the hacker and that run trough campus but.. The case felt little weird..moreless

A really interesting episode!

This episode was another extremely interesting one, and it provided a rather unusual case. The storyline was interesting and rather unpredictable, which made it a very exciting episode, and that is one of the reasons why I enjoyed it.

The episode did have some funny moments, which also added another great element to it, and this made the episode awesome.

I really enjoyed the ending to the episode, and this one had one of the most exciting conclusions.I wouldn't call this episode one of the best, but it is still an extremely interesting one, in my opinion, and I recommend it very highly.Great job, NCIS!moreless

Another great episode

This episode opens with a sorority prank. It is then that a body is found. The victim turns out to be a marine who has returned form Iraq to go to college. His name was Turner. When the team try to track down one of his friends (Blake), he has also been missing for a few days. So Tony & McGee search his room and find bloody towels hidden under the bed. The team learn that the missing marine and the victim were part of a paint ball team which played one on one. When McGee does some checking, he informs the team that he has found Blake through his hand held computer.When they follow his connect, hey discover the body of Blake, with his hand held computer. Ducky reveals that he died around the same time as the other officer, and that his neck was also snapped. The team discover that the person sending the emails and most likely the killer is a tech geek, whose room was next to Blake's. Were learn that the gunny was forcing a young woman on the campus to sleep with him and so the two now dead marines went to talk to him about it and he ended up killing them.moreless

Another fantastic episode.

This episode just got it all. I like it, cause to me it was a bit unpredictable who exactly did it. I only had a someone in my like seconds before it got obvious who did it. Looking back at this episode, or watching this episode again it is more obvious. But to me it still isn't one of those episode where you just know who did it. So yeah you could defiantly say that this episode was cleverly plotted.The characters were all their fabulous self's again, which always creates into hilarious scenes, and great chemistry between the team members.moreless

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TRIVIA (6)

GOOF: Another error made when McGee was first tracing the hacker, he said that it was being routed through a server in Buffalo. The box with the aforementioned fictional address says "Buffalo, NY" - yet the X on the map is right on top of New York City, the opposite end of the state.

GOOF: When McGee traces the person writing to Turner's IM, it returns a MAC address of 28773.29.128.21. A MAC address consists of a 12 character hexadecimal number, divided in groups of 2 by a "." Furthermore, the addresses of the servers the person is routing his connection through is also fictional, as IP addresses consists of 4 groups of numbers between 0 and 255, divided by a "."

TRIVIA: When Tony and Kate are looking for the hacker, in the Quad, they notice a suspicious guy on a laptop. As they approach him to see what he is doing, you can see he is on the "Scarlet Secret" website, from the episode 2x09 "Forced Entry."

TRIVIA: When McGee is tracking the device that the hacker is using, he said that it passed through the server of the "Baltimore City Public Library". The public library for the City of Baltimore is never called by that name. The official name is "The Enoch Pratt Free Library". Enoch Pratt was a very generous patron of the library. The library is also known simply as "The Pratt Library".

GOOF: When Abby is typing the first line of her last message to the hacker, all you see is "Hello, you twisted piece of s". Later, the line has changed to "Hello, you twisted piece of crap." Deliberate, but still a mistake.

QUOTES (39)

Gibbs: (referring to a locked computer file) Can you open it?Abby: They don't call me 'Five Fingered Sciuto' for nothing! Actually, nobody calls me that. My nickname is actually Vampersteen, but I never really liked the sound of it...

(After McGee and Abby have a slight argument and have stuck their tongues out at each other)Gibbs: Oh, so glad to see you two don't need adult supervision.Abby: McGee's annoying me again.Gibbs: (as McGee tries to speak) Don't...

(while Kate and Tony are in McGee's apartment)Tony: Kind of like watching National Geographic (with an accent). Watch as the McGee moves slowly from the watering hole, trailed by hyenas. Kate: This place needs a lot of help McGee. Tony: At least you're not building a boat in your basement.

Kate: I hate to say it but that was good idea, Tony.Gibbs: (coming in) What was Kate?Kate: Tony figured out a way to find the hacker.Gibbs: Of course. It's his job. ... You think I keep him around for his personality?

Tony: Sounds like 'Hell Week'.Gibbs: 'Hell Week'?Tony: Yeah, fraternal right of passage. Worst week of my life, followed by the best four years.Gibbs: Yeah? You were running around in your skivvies, Dinozzo?Tony: Technically...but back then they made us wear them on our heads. I think it was sort of a character building thing.Kate: Certainly explains a lot.

Ducky: It reminds me of a English Earl, who was abducted and asphyxiated. Every bone in his body was broken.Palmer: What happened to him?Ducky: Well, it was on a moonlit night...(Gibbs interrupts for a few minutes)Palmer: So that's what happened to the English Earl?Ducky: What English Earl?

NOTES (3)

Troian Avery Bellisario, Donald P. Bellisario's daughter, appears in this episode. After Donald, Troian is the second Bellisario to appear on the show. Donald's step-son Sean Murray is also a regular on the show.

Original International Airdates:Croatia: January 12, 2006 on NOVA TVFinland: September 1, 2007 on NelonenFrance: December 02, 2005 on M6Germany: February 02, 2006 on SAT.1Sweden: July 23, 2005 on TV3Denmark: April 26, 2005 on TV3

Tony: The first rule of Fight Club is that you never talk about Fight Club!

Fight Club, from 1999, is a film about an office worker and a soap salesman who start up an underground fighting club, designed to vent male aggression. It starred Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, and was directed by David Fincher.

Episode title: "Red Cell"Red Cell is a book by former Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko, as well as nonfiction video documentary. Marcinko's Red Cell was an elite Navy SEAL team who was to test the security measures of the nation's military and security divisions.

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